(April 7, 2024 at 4:12 am)Belacqua Wrote:(April 7, 2024 at 4:06 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Living well means living as you want and not as others order you to live.
You assert this dogmatically.
Do you have an argument as to why this is true, or is it something you just know?
I did explain it, but you ignored it. Why do you think people fight for their rights? Like for gay marriage. Or to end slavery. Or right to go to school.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
